Michael F. Walker
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| Alma mater | • Ohio University • Ohio State University. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CIA spook who was Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division 2007-2010.
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Michael F. Walker is a "retired" CIA spook who was Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division 2007-2010.[1]
Education
Walker holds an M.A. degree in International Affairs (Asian Studies) from Ohio University and a B.S. Degree in Zoology (Ichthyology and Entomology) fromOhio State University. Prior to his work in the CIA, Walker was an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps and a Peace Corps volunteer managing a fisheries project in India.[2]
Career
He lived in Afghanistan in the mid 1980's during the Soviet-Mujahidin war, Beirut, Lebanon in the late 1980's during the civil war, and again in Afghanistan in 2002 during the U.S.-Taliban war.[3]
He is known to have been Chief of Station in five countries, including in Greece and Germany[4].
He was Chief of the CIA’s Near East and South Asia Division (then the CIA’s largest division) from February 2007 to July 2010. As Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division, Walker was responsible for CIA’s wartime intelligence operations in [Iraq]] and Afghanistan and worked closely with CIA Directors General Michael Hayden and Leon Panetta on operations involving Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries in the Middle East and South Asia. Walker traveled abroad extensively on sensitive intelligence missions and also frequently interacted with the National Security Council, Department of Defense, Department of State, NSA, and FBI on these matters.[5]
He was "unable" to find Osama bin Laden.[6]
After "retirement" he started working for the Chertoff Group.
References
- ↑ https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Rf6oAAC/michael-f-walker
- ↑ https://chertoffgroup.com/michael-f-walker/
- ↑ https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Rf6oAAC/michael-f-walker
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060210185207/http://geheim-magazin.de/index.php?do=nana
- ↑ https://chertoffgroup.com/michael-f-walker/
- ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2011/05/03/excia-official-bin-laden-probably-had-help.html
